Thanks for the site and resources; I’ve learnt a lot so far (Also thanks for the fiction recommends too).

I’m a 20 year old trainee in need of a strength LP with conditioning. I’ve just started the 70s Big S%C program.

1) Is there anything you would do differently about the S&C program now, considering it was written a while back?

2) And more specifically, I read in some comments a few weeks back that you like high bar squatters to do RDLS for hamstring development; do you think I should trade power cleans for the RDLS, add them in on top of power cleans, or not add them in the program at all?

I would also love to see a follow-up post on that program as well. I’m on my ninth week and would highly recommend it to most trainees who haven’t exhausted a linear progression.

Personally, I’ve just been adding in RDL’s directly after Power Cleans on Tuesdays. At first I tried adding them to Monday (in order to get them as far removed from interfering with deadlifting as possible), but found that Monday’s workouts ended up being way too long.

Day to day I wear boxers. Can’t wear Fruit of the Loom anymore because my thighs are too big. Found some that are big enough.
With short shorts I either wear cotton briefs (not the white ones) or Calvin Klein’s, neither of which extend down my leg. Yes, the high cut is weird at first. Yes it gets to be normal. Yes the ladies absolutely love them. Serious.

I own some of those 6″ and maybe you’ll find they are more suitable for you than I’ve experienced. They used to be just fine. But now that my quads, hams and ass have grown enough to blow out 3 pairs of bluejeans, a pair of shorts, completely surpassed even trying to squeeze into Fruit of the Loom, and produce a rather attractive skin tight effect in the surviving wardrobe… The 6″, or anything other than zero (whitey tighties but not the white ones), now rides up my upside down pyramid thighs.

Yep. Well no. I have no grip issues with these blessed meat hooks. But my training buddy (5’5″ @ 175) has carnie hands and used to not be able to DL 400 without straps. Now he can pull over 500 by just using an alternate grip.
How you say? Well, here’s how: Fat Grips. He bought a pair of the blue ones and used them on damn near every auxiliary exercise (curls, rows, pulls/chins, dips, tri extensions). At first you’ll have to use less weight. He would also sit in a chair 1-2x a week and hold plates on edge until he dropped them. I think he started by sandwiching two 10’s, then moved to 25’s. Then moved to using Fat Grips on progressively heavier db’s. He would perform 3 sets of these 1-2x per week with a weight heavy enough to achieve about a 30 second hold.
On DL’s he would use double overhand for all warm ups until he couldn’t anymore. On his last working rep of the training session he would hold the bar at his waist for as long as he could. In about 2-3 months he was man handling over 500 bare handed.

I ran into the same issue with grip limiting my DL. I did farmer’s walks once a week for about 6 weeks and recently have been doing kettle bells. I didn’t think it was doing any good until a couple of weeks ago when I noticed my grip on my left hand wasn’t beginning to fail anymore.

On my light day I consistently do press 3×5. Bench is my intensity focus. Press 3×5 is getting hard hard and has repeatedly stalled and I’m struggling at 155x5x3. How do I progress it? Begin using triples? Basically just run it out, then cycle it after that, just as if it were an intensity-day lift?

The Adidas adipower are the best, hands down. awesome support as well as comfort. take care of them and they will last a lifetime. The Nikes have a little bit higher heel than the other brands which tends to throw people a little off balance. The reeboks are useless.

Do any of you guys mess with Chicken Shakes at all? Or just shakes of any kind? I have been looking into them. I know Chris Riley uses them. Any information or recipes would be great so it doesn’t taste completely vile.

I’ve never posted vids of my training before, and I’m gonna start doing that as I prepare to compete in February (no longer October)http://youtu.be/tiF53onBKk4 this was just a fun complex I did for 10 cycles in 30 sec intervals at the end of my session.

I came across this site last week right at the perfect time. From 2004-2007 I competed in strongman and powerlifting, and devoted a full year to Olympic lifting, but thanks to an Iraq deployment and later a demanding work schedule, for almost 5 years I stopped virtually all kind of strength training other than the occasional kettlebell workout.

I managed to find a gym I can now hit up whenever I need to and as of this week am back at it. I’m now 5’8″ and 188 pounds, I was strong for my size but now I want to be 70s Big and am using the WL Transition Program from here. So far my new maxes (calculated from either singles or 5RM, all in pounds): Snatch 95, C&J 150, Squat 255, Press 100, Row 160, FSQ 155, Bench 155, RDL 225.